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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Sorry I havent posted in an age as big as Dumbledore's, new job etc have kept me away. The twitter is very much up and running so make sure to check us out at http://www.twitter.com/DanaholicsAnony.

Exciting news for Irish Potter fans! Potterfest returns to National University Galway 13th to 15th March and there's as always a fan-tastic lineup including the annual Yule Ball with some real wrock music! Whats more the event will support Make a Wish Foundation.

A summary from the press release is below:

Special
guests over the weekend are set to include Wizard Wrock act Romilda Vane and
the Chocolate Cauldrons, as well as the creators of upcoming original fan film,
“Mudblood and the Book of Spells”.

Áras na Mac Léinn in NUIG will be transformed into
Hogwarts for three days of magical fun, with a huge variety of events such as Potter-themed
games, cosplay competitions, panels, classes, roleplaying workshops and guest
speakers on everything Potter.

Guests will have the opportunity to be sorted into
their perfect Hogwarts House and attend classes in all of Harry’s favourite
subjects, from Potions, Transfiguration and Herbology to Defence Against the
Dark Arts. The cast and crew of “Mudblood and the Book of Spells” will be
giving a behind-the-scenes sneak peak of what to expect from their movie. A
fantastic variety of Harry Potter merchandise will be available for purchase in
the Trade Hall, while some of the most talented artists
from around Ireland will be show-casing and selling their work in the Artists’
Alley.

On Saturday night PotterFest will be hosting their
very own Yule Ball, with music from Wizard Rock band, Romilda Vane and the
Chocolate Cauldrons. The fun continues for the adults with Hogwarts After Dark,
which will include cards games and fanfiction readings.

Sunday is Mothers’ Day in the Wizarding World too;
the occasion will be honoured with a Mums of Potter Panel, as well as a Tea
Party with Mrs. Weasley. And of course, there will be plenty of opportunities
to learn how to play Quidditch with the Galway Grindylows, Ireland’s first
Muggle University team.

You can now join the Facebook event and purchase tickets here at €10 a day tickets and €15 for the weekend with some concessions.

Danaholics will be covering the event and will write up a report with lots of photos! Let me know if you are attending in the comments!

It a bit of good news, UK and Ireland users of Netflix can now watch Postman Pat voice-starring our new favourite singer Rupert Grint, free of charge.

In other Rupert news, his schedule suddenly got much free-er (let's hope he's taking it better than Potter ending for his sake, poor boo) as It's Only a Play changes it's line-up slightly for the remainder of it's run. Left you can see Rupert being given flowers my co-star Matthew Broderick as he bows out.

Let's hope this means Enemy of Man is heading towards a-go?

Rupert.Grint.US are reporting that Rupert filmed an episode of Tastemakers TV while in the US. No word yet on when this will air. See an image of him filming here.

Finally, in case you missed it, below is the documentary Julie Walters: a life on screen in full which featured small snippits from Rupert.

Evanna Lynch has been silently working away on projects and one is coming together quite nicely. That project is called Dynamite: a Cautionary Tale and will be getting it's first trailer next week along with a final call for funds to round it off. The Facebook of the film posted this exciting message:

Hey everyone! First of all thank you so much for all your support for Dynamite!

We are thrilled to announce some very exciting updates. The movie's all shot, pieced together and looks amazing, but we want our post production process to be top notch and make the film as stunning as we know it can be. For this reason we'll be starting an Indiegogo campaign next week for post production funds!

***And on our Indiegogo page, we're FINALLY going to be able to show you all our very first trailer, and personal videos from Tate, Ian, and Evanna. You do not want to miss it!

Thank you all for your patience these past few weeks as we geared up for the campaign. Things are about to get WILD

In other projects, Evanna finished making another film entitled My Name is Emily back in October and The Hollywood Reporter had an article on the film you may have missed. The film is an Irish drama and is summaried as the following:

a romance and road movie about a teenage girl who leaves a foster home with a friend to find her father, who is locked up in a psychiatric institution, is the debut feature from Simon Fitzmaurice and stars Lynch as title character Emily.

Two stills were also released of the film, and these can be found above and in our album.